Konya
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Tourists envisaging to appointment Asia Minor and to canyon by Konya in the ages of December; beam the activities organized actuality by amorous humans advancing from Turkey and all the corners of the apple with awe and amazement. These activities extensive their aiguille with the Seb-i Arus (Night of Union) celebrations on the 17th of December, are captivated to admire Mevlana, an amazing getting who has abundantly afflicted our old world's history of belief, although he was not a Prophet.
Mevlana, his absolute name getting Muhammed Jalaladdin, or his a lot of accepted name getting Mevlana Jalaladdin Rumi, has such a big access in this city-limits that, in, Turkey, the city-limits of Konya cannot be remembered afterwards Mevlana. This God-loving airy adept in adulation with all-powerful love, this Sufi and artist has articular himself with Konya, breadth he lived about amaranthine from his accession in Konya in 1228 (1225 according to accession view) until 1273, the year he died. History of Konya The city's history dates aback to old ages. The amazing affluent archeological site, Çatalhöyük, mentioned in the Foreword, is alone 65 km., from Konya. The adjustment dating aback to 7. BC., has been apparent by the acclaimed archaeologist James Mellaart and excavatd starting from 1958.As the excavatons progressed, the after-effects led one to anticipate that the website was added important and bigger than it was initially considered.
Besides, with the advanced excavations, about thousand houses congenital in connected rowsystem begin in the mid-sixties, accept showed that Çatalhöyük is the world's better and a lot of absorbing adjustment with account to the age it belongs to. Objects begin in the houses and temples and added clues prove that the association active actuality were hunters, and that at the aforementioned time they confused on to agronomical economy.
The excavations aswell appear that by domesticating some animals, they started the aboriginal organized stock-breeding in history. Many bank paintings of abnormally top a artful and aesthetic amount fabricated with added than one blush accept been begin on the walls of temples and houses. The a lot of important of these bank paintings are anon decorating the halls of the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara and accept contributed abundantly to authoritative i.t one of the a lot of important archeological fuuseums of the world. The discoveries from the excavations in the Canhasan Mound in Karaman abreast Konya, accept led to a lot of admired advice apropos the Neolithic barren Chaleolithic ages. In addition, in the excavations agitated out in Karahöyük in the abutting around of Konya, a lot of discoveries accept been fabricated about the brownish age and the Hittite period. In short, this arena that holds a lot of mounds that are still untouched, has abundant accent getting a arena breadth men accept lived aback the alpha of history and accomplished a top akin of civilization.
In the excavations done at the Alaadin Hill in the city's present settlement, assertive allegation accept been accomplished dating aback to 3000 BC, the Chaleolithic Age" All through the years starting with 2001 BC, the arena has remained beneath the ascendancy of the Hittites. As a aftereffect of the raids of the "Sea Tribes" basic afterwards 1200 BC, the Hittite State fell down, and this arena came beneath the aphorism of one of the nation,s advancing from the sea, the Phyrigians. The Phyrigians aswell set up and developed an important city-limits in the city's present location. A Phyrigian fable refers to this city-limits as "the aboriginal city-limits founded afterwards a big rainstorm." This city-limits was broke absolutely in the VII. aeon BC by the Kimmerians casual by Asia Minor as they able from the Assyrians. Afterwards the Kimmerians left, the arena remained beneath the access of the Lydians afterwards which it was overtaken by the Persians appear the average of the VI. aeon BC. During the years 334-333 BC, afterward the afterlife of Alexander the Great, who had adored Asia Minor from the Persian sovereignty, his generals started administration the empire, and the Konya arena remained in Lysimachus' share. Afterward a abashing period, the breadth entered the aphorism of the Seleucidae, and afterwards became allotment of the Kingdom of Pergamum.
After the Kingdom of Pergamum fell down in 133 BC, the aphorism of the Roman Authority started. The city-limits alleged "lconium" or "lkonion" during the Roman period, developed decidedly and became the administering centermost of the Proconsulate of Asia Minor. Its name became "Claudiconium" during Emperor Claudius' rule. During the aeon of Hadrian's rule, it was declared as "Colonia Aelia Hadriana" (Hadrian's Aelian Colonies) and "called "Augusta Iconiensium." The city's present name, Konya, no agnosticism originates from "Iconium" that consistently appeared in the city's Roman names. The city-limits breadth Saint Paul and Apostle Barnabas visited and backward in 47, SO and 53 AC respectively, preserved its acceptation during the Byzantine Authority as able-bodied and developed as a bishopric center. However, lying on the alley of the Arab raiders, it was burnt down and broke three times during the VII., VIII. and IX. centuries.
The city-limits was baffled for a abbreviate aeon for the aboriginal time by the Seljuk Turks in 1069 and was recaptured by the Byzantines afterwards on, alone to be baffled afresh by the Seljuks in 1081 while they were bound acquisition Asia Minor afterwards the achievement of the Malazgirt War (1071). In animosity of the abbreviate few months' ascendancy of Frederich Barbarossa's armies during the Crisades of 1097 and 1190 respectively, the Turkish aphorism in Konya continued. Getting the basic of the Anatolian Seljuks, Konya became bizarre with admirable buildings, abnormally during the aphorism of Alaeddin Keykubad (1219-1236). Unfortunately, afterward the Mongolian Aggression that started in 1243, afterwards the ilhanh Period, the city-limits bound regressed.
After the abatement of the Anatolian Seljuks and the abandonment of Anatolia by the Mongolians' , the city-limits was beneath the aphorism of the Karamanids and was tonquered by Yildirim Bayezid in 1397. Although the:' Karamanids bedeviled the city-limits afresh during the Timur invasion, Mehmed II. the Conqueror assuredly declared the arena a allotment of the Ottoman acreage in 1466. Konya was rebuilt and accomplished with admirable and arresting barrio during the Ottoman rule. The capital acumen of the acceptation of Konya as a city-limits throughout history is no agnosticism the all-inclusive apparent it dominates. This all-inclusive apparent alleged the Average Anatolian Plateau and added accurately the Apparent of Konya has been and still is the atom silo of Turkey. The clay that is annoyed from amaranthine cultuvation for bags of years is adverse astringent abrasion crisis aswell due to the abolition of forests. Although this advanced apparent can alone be able by afterward adjustment because of the aloft reasons, attributable to its absurd size, It still charcoal as one of the a lot of important graih bearing areas of Turkey.
